The University of Geneva’s Center for Children’s Rights Studies, the International Institute for the Rights of the Child, the Swiss Center for Expertise in Human Rights and their partners invite you to discuss a ban of all corporal punishment in Switzerland's Civil Code, at the occasion of the 9th May Symposium which will take place on May 3 and 4 at Inselspital in Bern.

Simultaneous translation in German - French – English.

With:

Prof. Joan Durrant, University of Manitoba, Canada

Prof. Elizabeth Gershoff University of Texas (at Austin), USA

Dr. h. c. Marta Santos Pais Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence against Children

Judge Renate Winter, Chairperson, UN committee on the Rights of the Childetc.